stop dead

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Verb

stop dead - stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police car he froze"

settle on, fixate - become fixed (on); "Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon"

stand still - remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile; "Traffic stood still when the funeral procession passed by"

Translations

يَقِف كُلِيّاً

náhle se zastavit

plötzlich stoppen

arrêter net

snarstöîva

bråstanse stoppe brått

náhle sa zastaviť

taş gibi kalakalmak

突然停住

stop

(stop) – past tense, past participle stopped – verb

1. to (make something) cease moving, or come to rest, a halt etc. He stopped the car and got out; This train does not stop at Birmingham; He stopped to look at the map; He signalled with his hand to stop the bus.

2. to prevent from doing something. We must stop him (from) going; I was going to say something rude but stopped myself just in time.

3. to discontinue or cease eg doing something. That woman just can't stop talking; The rain has stopped; It has stopped raining.

4. to block or close. He stopped his ears with his hands when she started to shout at him.

5. to close (a hole, eg on a flute) or press down (a string on a violin etc) in order to play a particular note.

6. to stay. Will you be stopping long at the hotel?

noun

1. an act of stopping or state of being stopped. We made only two stops on our journey; Work came to a stop for the day.

2. a place for eg a bus to stop. a bus stop.

3. in punctuation, a full stop. Put a stop at the end of the sentence.

4. a device on a flute etc for covering the holes in order to vary the pitch, or knobs for bringing certain pipes into use on an organ.

5. a device, eg a wedge etc, for stopping the movement of something, or for keeping it in a fixed position. a door-stop.

ˈstoppage (-pidʒ) noun

(an) act of stopping or state or process of being stopped. The building was at last completed after many delays and stoppages.

ˈstopper noun

an object, eg a cork, that is put into the neck of a bottle, jar, hole etc to close it.

ˈstopping noun

a filling in a tooth. One of my stoppings has come out.

ˈstopcock noun

a tap and valve for controlling flow of liquid through a pipe.

ˈstopgap noun

a person or thing that fills a gap in an emergency. He was made headmaster as a stopgap till a new man could be appointed; (also adjective) stopgap arrangements.

ˈstopwatch noun

a watch with a hand that can be stopped and started, used in timing a race etc.

put a stop to

to prevent from continuing. We must put a stop to this waste.

stop at nothing

to be willing to do anything, however dishonest etc, in order to get something. He'll stop at nothing to get what he wants.

stop dead

to stop completely. I stopped dead when I saw him.

stop off

to make a halt on a journey etc. We stopped off at Edinburgh to see the castle.

stop over to make a stay of a night or more: We're planning to stop over in Amsterdam ( noun ˈstop-over)

stop up

to block. Some rubbish got into the drain and stopped it up.

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Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow.

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